sickle-cell disease
group of genetic blood disorders
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Summary
sickle-cell disease is a rare disease[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of rare disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,290 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[3]
- Subclass of: autosomal recessive disease[4], hemoglobinopathy[5], congenital hemolytic anemia[6], blood protein disease[7], disease[8]
- Commons category: Sickle-cell disease[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sickle-cell disease[10]
- Commons gallery: Drépanocytose[11]
- Facet of: malaria[12]
- ICD-9-CM: 282.6[13], 282.60[14], 282.63[15]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34383[16], C34676[17]
- Health specialty: hematology[18]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: sodium phenylbutyrate[19]
- Genetic association: NPRL3[20], BCL11A[21], HBB[22]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10923[23], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10923[24], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_275752[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[26], WikiProject Medicine[27]
Why It Matters
sickle-cell disease has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 121 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]